There exists two partitions on the iphone's flash drive. Local and media. Local is where your ringtones and apps are located. Download a program called bosstool and go to free up space. Move your ringtones and fonts and you should be in the clear.

I put BossTools on and moved fonts and ringtones, and my iphone apps started crashing. Mail SMS, safari all of it. I guess it had something to do with the fonts being moved. I have no idea why, any ideas?

I put BossTools on and moved fonts and ringtones, and my iphone apps started crashing. Mail SMS, safari all of it. I guess it had something to do with the fonts being moved. I have no idea why, any ideas?

Are you able to SSH into your iPhone? If you can, check to make sure link is there (/System/Library/Fonts -> /var/Fonts). If it doesn't exist you may have to manually create link (Something may have gone wrong during BossTools relocation process). Also make sure to check that total size of the Fonts directory is around 70mb.

I put BossTools on and moved fonts and ringtones, and my iphone apps started crashing. Mail SMS, safari all of it. I guess it had something to do with the fonts being moved. I have no idea why, any ideas?

I did that too and mine crashed badly... One reason I think so is because the application was moved. Either way.. only way to fix it is by restoring.

Anyone, I really hope you can help me. Alfredog said that when you restore the device everything goes back. I have had to restore 3 times in the past week and everytime I ssh in I still see symbolic links.
in my / folder are 6 sym link folders:

applications
etc
mach
tmp
User
var

these folders don't go away after a restore. I do the restore through itunes and I always set it up as a new phone. This whole thing started when I was trying to get categories to work. That was a bust and I wasn't sure I had jailbroken properly. I then restored and used ziphone (latest) and it seemed to work (Jailbreak only). Then I tried to use smsd and getting that to work caused me to have to restore again. Tried to run bosstools and it told me that things where already moved.

I am currently sitting with a ziphone jailbroken ATT&T 8 gig with 1.1.3(4A93) the 4th & 5th numbers of my serial are 45 (that's supposed to mean something right?). I am running installer and cydia with fake bsd. everything seems to be ok right now.

What I am trying to accomplish in the long run is to have a phone running catagories, smsd (possibly wetool also also if I can) along with:

Alright, BossTools now has moved my fonts fine, giving me 105MB out of 300MB free, however it still says ringtones are not relocated, even though they no longer exist in the "/" folder, but rather the "/var" part...

This is hella bamboozling, so if anyone has any advice, please help!

Also, would it be a bad idea to simply move ringtones back to where they previously were in WinSCP? Thanks a ton!

Alright, BossTools now has moved my fonts fine, giving me 105MB out of 300MB free, however it still says ringtones are not relocated, even though they no longer exist in the "/" folder, but rather the "/var" part...

This is hella bamboozling, so if anyone has any advice, please help!

Also, would it be a bad idea to simply move ringtones back to where they previously were in WinSCP? Thanks a ton!

-Douglas

Hi Douglas,
Do the default ringtones work? For example are you able to preview them in the Settings of the iPhone? If so, I would just leave it the way it is, it sounds like your default Ringtones have already been moved to /var/Ringtones (original location is "/System/Ringtones" if i'm not mistaken). If you really wanted to move them back (I don't think there would be a benefit to that, just my humble opinion), I can give you the steps how.

Edit: Sorry, Ringtones directory is actually located at "/Library/Ringtones" not "/System/Ringtones".

Originally Posted by sabanir

Anyone, I really hope you can help me. Alfredog said that when you restore the device everything goes back. I have had to restore 3 times in the past week and everytime I ssh in I still see symbolic links.
in my / folder are 6 sym link folders:

applications
etc
mach
tmp
User
var

I wouldn't touch "etc", "mach", "tmp", or "var" as they should all have symbolic links (For "User", im guessing you mean "usr", but I just checked mine and it is not linked, so not sure about that one) Not sure why when you did a restore the link did not revert back to a regular directory (in the case of "Applications"). I'm pretty sure when I did a restore, the "Applicatons" link reverted back to a regular directory. Were your 3rd party apps deleted?

Alfredog, My apps were deleted after each restore. That is why I thought everything was fine.

And believe it or not it does say "User"

it goes to /private/var/mobile

inside the mobilefolder is
.forward
.todo
Library folder
Media folder

There is something I am a bit confused about....when I ssh in (I use transmit ftp program on mac), what constitutes the "media partition"? In other words...how canI look at the file tree of my iphone through say an ftp program and tell which items are on which partition? Of course on my computer I can see a "partition" represented visually. Can you do that on iphone or what after the / means the right partition.

Alfredog, My apps were deleted after each restore. That is why I thought everything was fine.

And believe it or not it does say "User"

it goes to /private/var/mobile

inside the mobilefolder is
.forward
.todo
Library folder
Media folder

There is something I am a bit confused about....when I ssh in (I use transmit ftp program on mac), what constitutes the "media partition"? In other words...how canI look at the file tree of my iphone through say an ftp program and tell which items are on which partition? Of course on my computer I can see a "partition" represented visually. Can you do that on iphone or what after the / means the right partition.

I hope you understand what I am trying to say. HA!HA!

Type "df -H" using SSH client or Terminal.app. It will show you each partition, the directories associated with each partition and the amount used and space left for each partition. If you wanted a tree view, I use WinSCP on Windows XP (not sure of the Mac equivalent program).

Alright, thanks a lot. The default tones work fine, and I can't find any doubles in the files, so I guess I'll just leave it as-is for now.

However, I'm not sure as to whether ringtones are included in the 105MB out of 300MB of free space...

I take it it's not as simple as just dragging the file back to where it came from in WinSCP?

Yeah you can do that you just have to do some renaming of files and removing the symbolic link (if it's there).

There's an easy way to check in WinSCP if the ringtones were really moved to the larger partition (where your music and videos are located). In WinSCP, check if "/var/Ringtones" exists and if the ringtones are actually in there (around 30mb i believe). If not, check if an symbolic link exists for "/Library/Ringtones". You can right click and check "Properties" and it should tell you if it's linked to another directory. If it's not linked to "/var/Ringtones" let us know.